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imrehg

@imrehg@fosstodon.org

Machine Learning / Software Engineer, Physicist, Hacker. Based in #Taiwan. From #Hungary. Blogging as https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/author/gergely/.

Often found with: :python: :archlinux:

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imrehg, to random
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Setting up Fastmail with my domain to migrate the interesting parts of my communication from Gmail, and KonMariing the heck out of it, there goes 20k various notifications & other garbage 🚮. Let's ♻️ that disk space :)

imrehg, to random
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Never been not relevant.
James Acaster tells it how it is.

https://youtu.be/x73PkUvArJY?si=m-fgQEnf91kJLYhC

current news. So, keep looking at the stuff! :)

davidonformosa, to Taiwan
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Indigenous candidate in Taiwan's legislative election registers with the name "李我要單列族名我的布農族名字是Savungaz Valincinan". This is a protest against government policy which does not allow Indigenous people to register their names solely using the Roman alphabet. Currently they must use Chinese characters and the Roman alphabet

https://pinyin.info/news/2023/my-bunun-name-is/

imrehg,
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@davidonformosa as an aside, the article's "here is a ChatGPT translation of the story..." is definitely new.

imrehg,
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@davidonformosa At least it's never been more easy to run things trhough Google Translate + any of the many big AI tools, get something, and reconcile them. Just my hunch that this is not what's gonna happen, rather it will be absolue rock bottom quality either ways. Though being in Taiwan I'm use to least effort translations in general 😅 New year resolution, every year: learn some more languages better!

imrehg, to random
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New Boozoo Bajou, and it's beautiful...

I <3 Tough Times, but all others too.

https://boozoobajou.bandcamp.com/album/finist-re

imrehg, to random
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@SomaFMrusty this might be relevant for your interests, people being thankful for SomaFM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38400162

Happy Thanksgiving!

yaohsi, to Taiwan
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Foxconn founder Terry Gou has announced his withdrawal from the presidential race, so his 7% will mainly go to KMT I think. But the real DRAMA is that the VP candidate, Tammy Lai, a famous actress who recently got noticed in Wave Makers, renounced her US citizenship FOR NOTHING

imrehg,
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@yaohsi well, that was good timing (tm)....

schee, to random
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Happy

imrehg,
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@schee thank you! :)

imrehg, to random
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Just switched my email service to Fastmail, and while cleaning up my mailing lists and notifications, I also realise how few actual emails I get.

Almost keen to bringing it back again somehow (not sure why, besides because retro reasons - those are good enough reasons for me, though)...

dlupham, to France
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Another post. In Chatillon-sur-Indre a former gas station has been repurposed to selling round-the-clock.

imrehg,
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@dlupham and it's even hot in 3 minutes! (Or cold in 30s if you are in a hurry, I guess?)

imrehg,
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@dlupham I got the metrics off the box, painted on their bottom, if I read them well 👀

And that sounds like an excellent idea to customise! Definitely better than I've expected a service like this to be.

imrehg, to random
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I am honestly confused between Gmail, Android, CardDav/CalDav, Fastmail, and custom domains. Or rather, exasperated how messy one's own information becomes when have to work through partially un-interoperable system boundaries...

Besides losing time trying to sort it (which is a given), I'm also not sure how much information am I also losing.

qsasha, to vegan Chinese
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Vegan salmon rice ball with hot tea available at family mart a.k.a a convenient store. In Taiwan, it’s easier to be a vegetarian now.


imrehg,
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@qsasha how did you like it? There were some other interesting vegetarian things recently too... though I cannot recall what they were 😅

taiwanreporter, to random German
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Love old wooden doors.

imrehg,
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@taiwanreporter this looks gorgeous! knock-knock

davidonformosa, to Taiwan
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Why progressives hate Ko Wen-je

He's "backstabbing, misogynist, arrogant"

https://open.substack.com/pub/ampleroad/p/why-progressives-hate-ko-wen-je-a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2wlot

#Taiwan #TaiwanElection

imrehg,
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@davidonformosa you saying he does not "keep promise"? 😅

imrehg, to random
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Spending a Sunday afternoon setting up DNS records is fun. As long as I don't mess them up... A little nerding out is good for the quality of one (nerd)'s life.

imrehg,
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@dottorblaster I honestly say for some of the domains (plural!) I really wasn't sure what few of the bits were, historically. Well, we'll see soon enough if anything broke (or rather likely never gonna find it out 😅)

heyheymomo, to random
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I really like owls

imrehg,
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@heyheymomo guess what is my ringtone now? 📢

imrehg, to random
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Watch out for the predator.

imrehg, to random
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Things we read just for fun...
(It is great to have a uni library nearby)

wevebe, to random Dutch
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imrehg,
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@wevebe so that's where Pinky and the Brain got their inspiration from!

ProfundumPhoto, to random
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Just glanced at the Taiwan Ministry for Transport & Communications standard contract for domestic tourism (because I’m fun), and I enjoyed the line on the definition of “domestic tourism”:

本契約所謂國內旅遊，指在臺灣、澎湖、金門、馬祖及其他自由地區之我國疆域範圍內之旅遊。

So “domestic” is Taiwan, Penghu, Jinmen, Matsu “and other free areas with the borders of Our Nation”.

I know it doesn’t outright use the expression, but I enjoyed the lingering reference to “Free China”.

The challenges of legal precision in a world of ambiguity.

imrehg,
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@ProfundumPhoto when I first started to learn Chinese, back in Hungary, I had a textbook from the library.

Only remember the first sentence, along the lines of "Good morning, Comrade Wang", and that it was something to do with his tractor...

Needless to say it hasn't stuck. Started from scratch 10 years later, properly. :)

foone, to random
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There's a special hell for sites which have password requirements that are like 16 letters, one or more numbers, upper case and lowercase, at least one special character, and we disabled pasting/password managers

imrehg,
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@foone extra super bonus for apps that also disable the system keyboard and force you to use their own, randomised keyboard to enter your password (in addition to all the winning conditions that you described) 🤢 ....

imrehg,
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@foone and oh how much I also love captchas on login pages (my ISP supplied router's LAN login for example ffs)... Way too popular this side of the earth. I guess I'd need to evangelize rate limiting...

schee, to random
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511lbs (232kg) deadlift for fitness enthusiast.

video/mp4

imrehg,
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@schee just wow... 💪

coffeegeek, to coffee
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Some siphon news...

A new siphon design coming from a company out of Portugal very soon. They modelled their design on the 1916-1922 version of the original Silex siphon coffee maker, one of the first consumer products ever made with pyrex glass.

Here's a very exclusive look at the prototype.

imrehg,
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@coffeegeek looks gorgeous!

Gargron, to random
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This street is lovely.

imrehg,
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@Gargron these are a classic!

Edent, to solar
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Finally switched to a smart energy tariff - Octopus Agile.

I'm hoping that our #solar panels and battery (@solar) will be able to offset any big spikes in price.

Either by storing more electricity when it is cheap, or discharging when it is expensive.

£50 for us both if you join - https://share.octopus.energy/metal-dove-988

imrehg,
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@Edent this looks fun! A lot like the lab environment monitoring system I had, ages ago (not optimised for viewing on Kindle, that's for sure!)

https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2012/10/laboratory-2-0-a-monitoring-system/

tonybaloney, to random
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Arrived in Tokyo for PyCon APAC. Room service menu was burgers and chips so I went wondering. ラメンは美味しいでした

imrehg,
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@tonybaloney a great upgrade!

schee, to random
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imrehg,
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@schee morning!

imrehg, to random
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Need to have these posted around the office :) https://github.com/louim/in-case-of-fire

davidonformosa, to Taiwan
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Morning coffee at Cama Café
早上喝一杯咖啡

#Taiwan #Taiwanderful #Taipei #Coffee #cafe

Coffee roasting equipment in Cama Café in Taipei

imrehg,
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@davidonformosa that looks lovely! Our Camas in the neighbourhood don't have such seating.

imrehg, to random
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Catronaut has landed!

Edent, to random
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"Why women dey less likely to ask questions for public?" - BBC News Pidgin

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c72d7rrr989o

imrehg,
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@Edent strangely attractive, somehow Pidgin sounds so familiar, like chatting with friends... A good article too, though.

imrehg, to random
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Compiling from scratch to get the Unifi control interface working on my old-oooold laptop. So far it's been about 15 hours this weekend (once v7, once v5), now hopefully with the right CFLAGS settings that it won't actually segfault on start, since Mongo trying to use a CPU instruction that is not available on this machine...

What a rabbit hole this is! https://github.com/docker-library/mongo/issues/485

But slowly setting up my environment correctly.

imrehg,
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The wins so far for my :arch: setup:

  • hopefully better makepkg.conf (instead of generic, being native, so things are built for this machine)

  • cpupower config, where I could limit the max frequency that solved my thermal shutdown issues reasonably well!

Both should give a bit more longevity to this 12 years-and-running laptop.

Also:

  • discovering coredumpctl, what doesn't systemd do?
imrehg,
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I'm guessing this experience will also finally get me over the hump and do the NAND2Tetris course in earnest, so I can build up a better intuition and knowledg about the wacky computer behaviour that I'm normally working around or wave away. https://www.nand2tetris.org/

I was also surprsied to see that the course uses a simulartor rather than building actual hardware stuff but in retrospect it makes complete sense...

imrehg,
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Well, it would have saved 15-20 hours of compile trial and error, if I had realised earlier that the packages filter out & remove the "-m" architecture & tuning flags from what the systems says (so my initial try was ineffective until I removed this line from the PKGBUILD: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=mongodb&id=4ff90e636456408d2448b64eb0a7f27f6d48f5b6#n134

I do wonder, why is it there, to be honest...

But now I have a Mongo 5.x working without segfault, and moving onto compiling 6 then 7 to migrate my Unifi database gradually.

bikejourno, to Taiwan German
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One last breakfast in , Danbing obviously. Leaving and heading back to Europe with flight BR65, scheduled departure 11:30pm. The last three weeks have been a blast, hopefully back in March (if China does not do anything incredibly stupid). Jiayou Taiwan!

imrehg,
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@bikejourno they better not do! Have good travels!

ljs, to random
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It takes a certain type of person who, when you pull forward to park in a space, indicating the whole time, drives in and takes it.

A certain kind of cunt who one day will do that to a nutter and have a bad outcome.

Luckily I'm British so I just tutted under my breath and found another spot

imrehg,
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@ljs ah, these are the ones Dante written about...

imrehg,
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@ljs the "roundabout" with an exit?

imrehg,
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@ljs :blobcatfacepalm: yeah, otherwise it's not a big deterrent...

Although thinking about it, adding exits can make the torture more effective, by adding an element of hope. Just like European Vacation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc

imrehg, to ChatGPT
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·e3 beta access landed on my account, so here's one for in . The prompt was:

> A tabby cat happily hiking in the sub-tropical forests of Taiwan.

which the system rewrote into:

> Photo of a tabby cat wearing a tiny backpack, enthusiastically exploring the dense sub-tropical forests of Taiwan. Sunlight filters through the tall trees and the air is filled with the chirping of birds.

schee, to random
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Tower running. All the way up 390 meters, 91 floors, 2046 steps.

image/png

imrehg,
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@schee oh, very cool! Hope it goes well! Also, was it difficult to sign up? I've done it loooooong time ago, but if I were to do it now it seems to be difficult to get in on that, as the applications are really oversubscribed.

shu_wang_gong, to random
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Seven volumes of Chiang Kai-shek's diary are being published in Taiwan in traditional Chinese with annotations. These volumes cover 1948-1954. While other partial versions of Chiang's diaries have been published in China, this project is licensed by and had full support from Taiwan's Academia Historica, which now holds the original diaries.

They are significant because Chiang was the only World War II leader who kept a diary according to the project leader.

https://udn.com/news/story/123784/7504286

imrehg,
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@shu_wang_gong interesting, if anyone, I expected Winston Churchill to keep diaries!

imrehg,
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@shu_wang_gong I think it's a given that Churchill's memoires are branding for him, in sort of a "you tell your story the way you want it to be heard, or someone else will tell it in a way you won't like it one bit" manner...

On the other hand, I don't expect anything less from Chiang however little I know about him. He strikes me as a person who'd totally lie to himself (drink his own kool-aid). And just because there is not other audience... there is, just not explicitly.

:)

JensHannemann, to Guineapig
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It’s been quite the week, so please have a picture of our with his brand new Technic 911 RSR. My son helped him assemble it.

imrehg,
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@JensHannemann nice!

This is a good place to highlight: kids, you too can have your fancy Porsche if you keep on that hamster wheel!

KatM, to animals
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My daughter takes her kitty hiking on a leash and in a backpack with her. She seems to really enjoy it! She's otherwise a house cat.

Calico Tortie kitten (gold, white, black, and brown) on a red leash shakes off water, sending droplets everywhere, after she tested lake water. The Washington Cascade Mountains and a few evergreen trees can be seen in the background. It's bright, sunny day with blue skies.
A beautiful Calico Tortie kitten (gold, white, black, and brown) with green eyes, a pink nose, and long white whiskers poses regally against the backdrops of the snow capped Washington Cascade Mountains and evergreen trees. It's bright, sunny day with blue skies and one small, puffy cloud.

imrehg,
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@KatM an excellent idea!

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